Falling in Love with Joseph Smith: My Search for the Real Prophet

Barnes, Jane

ISBN 10: 1585429252 / ISBN 13: 9781585429257

Published by Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, New York, 2012

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8vo, 294 pp.

Seller Inventory # 099145

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling in Love with Joseph Smith: My Search for the Real Prophet
• Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585429252
• ISBN 13: 9781585429257
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion

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Synopsis

Recounts how the author became unexpectedly infatuated with Joseph Smith and the Mormon religion while working on The Mormons PBS series, describing her findings while studying Smith's engaging early writings, her temptation to convert and her discovery that an ancestor was a Mormon whose life was upended by Smith's polygamy practices. TV tie-in.

About the Authors

JANE BARNES, who has received fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, has published two novels: I, Krupskaya: My Life with Lenin and Double Lives. Her essays and stories have appeared in MLLE, Mirabella, Prairie Schooner, Dialogue, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Barnes has written documentaries for American Experience, American Masters, and Frontline. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

JANE BARNES, who has received fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, has published two novels:I, Krupskaya: My Life with Lenin and Double Lives. Her essays and stories have appeared in MLLE,Mirabella, Prairie Schooner, Dialogue, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Barnes has written documentaries forAmerican Experience, American Masters, and Frontline. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.